My Bad

This article is about the Scrubs episode. For the Dexter episode, see My Bad (Dexter). For the expression, see My bad.

"My Bad"
Scrubs episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 6
Directed by	Marc Buckland
Written by	Gabrielle Allan
Production code	S105
Original air date	October 30, 2001
Guest stars
Sam Lloyd as Ted Buckland Christa Miller as Jordan Sullivan Jimmie Walker as Himself Mark Chaet as Dr. Greenberg Angee Hughes as Nurse Gina Morelli as Carla's mother Earl Schuman as Patient
Episode chronology
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List of Scrubs episodes

"My Bad" is the sixth episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It originally aired as episode 6 of season 1 on October 30, 2001.

Plot

Dr. Cox's suspension puts his future at the hospital in doubt.

Elliot gets a patient whose jaw is wired shut. He turns out to be a therapist named Dr. Greenberg. She pours her heart out to him, but then feels depressed when he leaves. Turk tells her it's okay to talk to a therapist, so she goes to see the therapist that was her patient, resulting in a true reversal of roles.

Turk spends the night at Carla's, but her mother catches them in bed together in the morning and thus taken as instant dislike to Turk. She is reluctant to spend the night at Turk's because her mother "is frail", but she finally agrees. That night, her mother breaks her leg. Carla feels terrible about it and gets upset at Turk, feeling that the accident was her fault. Dr. Cox attempts to allay her concerns, convincing her that her mother would have broken her leg anyway, and tells her she should be allowed to live her own life.

J.D. is given a sexy but self-absorbed board member to care for. After he has to put his foot down against her dismissive whims, she is turned on enough to sleep with him. He finds out later that she's actually Dr. Cox's ex-wife, Jordan. He also resolves to end Dr. Cox's suspension, and enlists Jordan's help, resulting in Cox's reinstatement.

Cultural references

• The episode title is taken from the common Americanism "my bad," which is a phrase one uses to own up to a mistake, similar to mea culpa.
• Dr. Cox, at one point, refers to J.D. as Linus. In "My Charlie Brown Christmas", a Christmas episode the cast made for fun, Dr. Cox was cast as Linus.

Production details

• The footage from the Cox/Sullivan wedding is actual footage from the wedding of Christa Miller and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence.

First appearance

• This is the first episode to feature the recurring character Jordan Sullivan.

Featured music

• "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul (performed by Donald Faison)
• "Good Life" by Francis Dunnery

External links

• "My Bad" at the Internet Movie Database
• "My Bad" at TV.com